> From: Mark Philips
>> I send an email to someone and get an out of office response. I would
>> like to schedule resending my email when the person is back in the
>> office, particularly when he/she will be out of the office for
>> several days or weeks.
From: "Bob Elzer" <
bob.elzer@gmail.com>
> To me this sounds like it might be very annoying. You send me a
> message while I was away, when I get back and start going through my
> emails, I read and reply to yours. Then as I get to the end of my
> email, I get the same email from you again.
There are a lot of people who don't know how to use e-mail well.
These people tend to only look at the last ~30 messages they got, or
not pay attention to anything older than N days, or not know that the
"preview pane" is a scrollable window, so they only read the first
N lines of a message, or something like that. Maybe these are the
people Mark is trying to reach. (It's too bad that "get smarter
users" is just not doable a lot of the time.)
I'm sure the problem is solvable if you have atd running. The mail
command is pseudocode because I can't remember the name of the client
that runs from the command line and allows you to easily attach files
and all of that junk:
(save message in /path/msg)
(attachment in /path/blah.jpg)
at 9am Jul 16
mailcommand -s 'a subject' --attach /path/blah.jpg < /path/msg
^D
...I will find out which client(s) can be used to do this once I
can get to my notes on this subject later on today, and get you a
real way of solving this.
> like it could cause problems, like people thinking you are very
> impatient.
In some places, constant impatience and being loud is seen as a
sign of competence and drive.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows
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http://crow202.org/wordpress/
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